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Editha TIMS, Deceased )
Report of Sale of Land & )
Payment of Purchase Money ) Filed January 10th 1878
The State of Alabama )
Choctaw County ) To the Hon. B. H. WARREN, Judge of Probate Court
of said county: The undersigned, Administrator of the estate of Editha TIMS,
deceased, reports that in pursuance of an order heretofore made by said court, to wit:
On the 10th day of December 1877, authorized and empowering the undersigned to sell
the realty belonging to the estate of said deceased, after having given due and legal
notice by advertizing the same in the Butler News, a newspaper published in said
county for three weeks previsous (sic) to the day of sale, setting forth the time, terms
and place of sale, on Monday the 7th day of January 1878, viz the day and the place
apponited (sic) for said sale and between the legal hours of sale, did offer said realty
for sale at public outcry; and at said sale, Frank TIMS, being the highest,
best and last bidder therefore became the purchaser of East Half of Northwest Quarter
and the West Half of Northeast Quarter, Section 19, Township 14, Range 4 West, containing
151 acres and 16 rods at the aggregate sum of five hundred ($500) dollars. The said
Administrator further reports that said Frank TIMS has complied with the terms
of said sale, and has paid in full the said purchase money, that said sale was fairly
conducted and that said realty was sold for an amount not inadequate to its value,
wherefore the said Adminsitrator prays that said sale be ratified and confirmed and
that our order be granted authorizing him to execute titles to said Frank TIMS
for the said real estate purchased by him, as aforesaid, all of which is respectfully
submitted.
Sworn to and subscribed ) L. J. MOONEY
before me this the 10th day ) Administrator
of January 1878, B. H. WARREN, Judge of Probate
Recorded February 7th 1878
B. H. WARREN, Judge of Probate